Interactive fiction

makes them feel a connection to what’s on the paper. Historical fiction is an often-forgotten genre of storytelling, but can be the most powerful as it takes events that have occurred in the past and creates a story with them. Persia Woolley addresses this idea in his piece about how to write historical fiction and looks at what makes some stories more powerful than others. Each author is different in how they balance the history and fiction in their stories and this directly impacts

Self-identity means the finding of a person’s qualities and the potential that a person has, especially given in a social context.( Self-identity can also be a vital part in literature based on how characters in a novel are treated in the world they are living in. In literature, self-identity, in many ways, can be an important part in the way a character is shaped and developed through a story. Self-identity can show many ideas of a character changing form the way they act to the way they dress,

Philosophy 356 Thomasson’s Artifactual Theory of Fictional Characters The aim of this paper is to demonstrate the basic principals of Thomasson’s artifactual Theory of Fictional Characters while offering support for its superiority over other theories due to its correspondence with the common conceptions and practices of literature when concerning fictional characters. Being that fictional characters are created solely in the works of literature (at least the fictional characters we are pondering

Stereotyping and friendship appear to be completely distinct topics, however, they both tie in with the characters, and morals from “Cathedral” and ‘Everything That Rises Must Converge”. Stereotyping is highly seen in the short story “Everything That Rises Must Converge” by Flannery O’Connor. The characters in this story are very opinionated about their opposite race as they all live in a time in which segregation is frequently seen. In “Cathedral” by Raymond Carver, stereotyping, is slightly shown

Alexus Baker English 101-975 4/20/17 Final Draft Instructor Jones “A Good Man Is Hard To Find” “A Good Man Is Hard to Find” is a short story written by Flannery O’Connor in 1953. O’Connor is a known writer for specializing in southern gothic and relied heavily on regional settings and distorted characters. Flannery discusses a topic in the short story, Good Vs Evil and how a confrontation between a grandmother with a superficial sense of goodness vs a criminal who embodies real evil. In "A Good

Introduction Among the living writers of India there is hardly any parallel to the formidable creative genius of Bhalchandra Nemade. He is a novelist, a poet and a distinguished critic. The impact of his original thinking and the force of his powerful argument on the contemporary literary and intellectual life of India is unparalleled in recent history. His greatest contribution to Indian literary criticism is his theory of Nativism. As a literary critic he has been passionately advocating it. As

important details contained in his short personal fiction. To begin with, language is one of the important key themes that Junot Diaz focuses on his story. Throughout the chapters, one is able to see a combination of words that contain a mixture of slang in both English and Spanish. Likewise, in his short stories, Diaz includes a variety of Spanish words that are used in his home country as well as other Latin American countries. In his short personal fiction one example where Diaz incorporates a mixture

Ernest Hemingway is well-known for uniquely integrating his own experiences into his works. With each plot, he subtly weaves the elements into multiple layers of significance. His skillful use of allegory adds meaning to each story, as it allows the reader to take a step back in time and get a glimpse some of the controversies of the past. If the story were to lose its believability, the connection to the reader would be severed. Many of Hemingway’s stories allow the reader to easily grasp the superficial

The 1936 short story “Snows of Kilimanjaro” is one of the most famous fictional works of Ernest Hemingway and the title short story for his 1961 collection The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories. He depicts many themes throughout his story including love and war. Love is reflected as an anathema to a fruitful romantic relationship with relationships based on lies flourishing as the ones based on love collapse. Further, war is shown as a vain slaughter of men, led by incompetence and causing great

At this point in my life, reading would definitely not make a list of my favorite things to do, but this wasn’t always the case. Some of my youngest memories involve reading, and many of these memories are enjoyable. Every night before bed my mom would read to me, and I remember begging to read just one more before she tucked me in almost every night. This is when my love for reading sparked. Throughout grade school, I continued to read frequently and never found it to be a chore; however, once middle